This installation traces the 1,600-year history of brush writing from its genesis as a fine art in the 4th century A.D., through successive peaks of individual innovation, to its recent transformation from a universal mark of scholarly status into a form of abstract art. It features more than 70 works, with examples from the permanent collection importantly augmented by select works from private collections.
Americans in Paris, 1860-1900: Through January 28, 2007
Filled with the best of the old and the new-from the Louvre's treasures to Haussmann's boulevards-late-19th-century Paris attracted hundreds of American art students and artists, including Whistler, Eakins, Cassatt, and Sargent. So powerful was the lure of Paris that writer Henry James could observe in 1887: "When to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris.
When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a great deal of Paris in it." This major loan exhibition highlights the themes "Picturing Paris"; "At Home in Paris"; "Paris as Proving Ground," which includes canvases shown in the Salons and other expositions; "Summers in the Country," when many Americans worked as Impressionists; and "Back in the United States," which suggests some of the lessons they brought home.
The exhibition is made possible by Bank of America. Additional support is provided by the Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund. The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Accompanied by a catalogue. -- www.metmuseum.org
Posted January 18th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
